Robert W Clements

US Patent:

6524636, Feb 25, 2003

Filed:

Apr 26, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/560255

Inventors:

Robert G. Clements - Minneapolis MN
James Citti - Minneapolis MN
Michael E. Bond - Wisconsin Rapids WI

Assignee:

General Mills, Inc. - Minneapolis MN

International Classification:

A23L 139

US Classification:

426589, 426393, 426114

Abstract:

A frozen sauce delivery system provides a sauce for a frozen food product in the form of a plurality of frozen sauce chips. Depending on the type of sauce being provided, the sauce may be formed into one or more different types of chips. Each type of chip is formed from a mixture that may include a portion of the ingredients used to form the sauce. Each mixture is then apportioned and frozen as chips. The melting temperature of the chip ingredients can be formulated to be higher than the melting temperature of the overall sauce. A plurality of each type of sauce chip is then included in a package along with frozen food items to create the frozen food product. This frozen food product may then be prepared, preferably using heat, to form a finished food dish that includes heated food items coated in the heated sauce.

US Patent:

D598634, Aug 25, 2009

Filed:

Dec 19, 2008

Appl. No.:

29/329747

Inventors:

James W. Geoffrion - Anoka MN, US
Michael Merritt - Plymouth MN, US
Robert Clements - Plymouth MN, US

Assignee:

General Mills IP Holdings II, LLC - Minneapolis MN

International Classification:

0101

US Classification:

D 1122

US Patent:

D598635, Aug 25, 2009

Filed:

Dec 19, 2008

Appl. No.:

29/329736

Inventors:

James W. Geoffrion - Anoka MN, US
Michael Merritt - Plymouth MN, US
Robert Clements - Plymouth MN, US

Assignee:

General Mills IP Holdings II, LLC - Minneapolis MN

International Classification:

0101

US Classification:

D 1127